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From Climate Change Awareness To Energy Efficient Behaviour, Leila Niamir, Tatiana Filatova

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Understanding and predicting how climate will change, and whether and how a transition to low-carbon economies will develop over the next century is of vital importance. Nowadays there is high competition between countries to achieve a low-carbon economy. They are examining different ways e.g. different energy efficient technologies and low-carbon energy sources, however they believe that human choices and behavioural change has a crucial impact, which is many times discussed in the literature as well. In this paper, we aim to discuss challenges related to modelling behavioural changes on the demand side and show effect of the demand side activation …

Abq Free Press, July 13, 2016, Abq Free Press

ABQ Free Press

No abstract provided.

An Integrated Interdisciplinary Modelling System Of Climate Change Impacts On Agriculture In Support Of Adaptation Planning: Mosaicc, Hideki Kanamaru, Mauro Evangelisti

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations developed a server-based integrated system of tools and models called MOSAICC to evaluate climate change impacts on the agriculture sectors (crops, water resources, forests, and economy). MOSAICC is designed to respond to the needs of developing countries which may benefit from institutional and individual capacity development in producing relevant information for national climate change adaptation planning. This innovative system design facilitates a participatory environment where researchers with different installations on the user's computer and makes maintenance and update of the system on the centralized server simple. MOSAICC is based on open-source technology …

Re-Examining The Abm Empirical Toolkit In A World Of Big (Behavioral) Data, Andrew Bell

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Robinson et al. (2007) identify five key modes of informing agent-based models (ABM): surveys, participant observation, field and lab experiments, companion modeling, and remotely-sensed data. Janssen and Ostrom (2006) hone in on some of the key dimensions that differentiate these approaches and the kinds of inferences that can be made from them, including the depth of capturing cognitive processes, the number of repeated observations made, and the size of the sample. A decade of technological change has occurred since these reviews were prepared, with mobile technologies in particular breaking down barriers to the scale and scope with which behavioral data …

Shaping Climate Citizenship: The Ethics Of Inclusion In Climate Change Communication And Policy, Lauren E. Cagle

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The problem of climate change is not simply scientific or technical, but also political and social. This dissertation analyzes both the role and the ethical foundations of citizenship and citizen engagement in the political and social aspects of climate change communication and policy-making. Using a critical discourse analysis of a policy recommendations drafted by the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact, I demonstrate how climate change policy documentation naturalizes a particular version of citizenship I call “climate citizenship.” Based on environmental critiques of liberal and civic republican citizenship, I show how this “climate citizenship” would be more productive and ethical …

Daily Announcements July 2016, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

Engineering News, Summer 2016, School Of Engineering

Engineering News

No abstract provided.

2016-2017 Ursinus College Course Catalogue, Office Of The Registrar

Ursinus College Catalogues, 1869-Present

A digital copy of the 2016-2017 Ursinus College Catalog. It contains details of the curriculum, departmental requirements and courses of instruction as well as core requirements such as the Common Intellectual Experience (CIE) and Independent Learning Experience (ILE). Academic policies, special opportunities and scholarships, off-campus programs and graduation requirements are also outlined.

Macalester Today Summer 2016, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Longwood Magazine 2016 Summer, Longwood University

Alumni Newsletters & Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Fair Care? How Ecuadorian Women Negotiate Childcare In Fair Trade Flower Production, Corrie Grosse

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Highlights

• Ecuadorian mothers working in fair trade flowers have concerns about childcare.

• To manage, they developed “gendered economic strategies” (Casanova, 2011).

• Their strategies involved diverse childcare arrangements and visions for the future.

• These strategies maintain gendered and privatized provision of care.

• Fair trade floriculture does not sufficiently support care.

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2016), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year, Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list. Our goal is to inspire students and the rest of our community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read.

With the 2016 collection, we again bring together recommendations from across our campus—the books, movies, TV shows, and even musicals that have meant something special to us over the past year. 124 faculty, administrators and staff offer up a record number of 226 recommendations.

We include five special features this year. Two of our regular columnists are …

Understanding Women's Needs For Weather And Climate Information In Agrarian Settings: The Case Of Ngetou Maleck, Senegal, Edward Carr, Grant Fleming, Tshibangu Kalala

Sustainability and Social Justice

While climate services have the potential to reduce precipitation- and temperature-related risks to agrarian livelihoods, such outcomes are possible only when they deliver information that is salient, legitimate, and credible to end users. This is particularly true of climate services intended to address the needs of women in agrarian contexts. The design of such gender-sensitive services is hampered by oversimplified framings of women as a group in both the adaptation and climate services literatures. This paper demonstrates that even at the village level, women have different climate and weather information needs, and differing abilities to act on that information. Therefore, …

Comparative Genomics, Transcriptomics, And Physiology Distinguish Symbiotic From Free-Living Chlorella Strains, Cristian F. Quispe, Olivia Sonderman, Maya Khasin, Wayne R. Riekhof, James L. Van Etten, Kenneth Nickerson

Kenneth Nickerson Papers

Most animal–microbe symbiotic interactions must be advantageous to the host and provide nutritional benefits to the endosymbiont. When the host provides nutrients, it can gain the capacity to control the interaction, promote self-growth, and increase its fitness. Chlorella-like green algae engage in symbiotic relationships with certain protozoans, a partnership that significantly impacts the physiology of both organisms. Consequently, it is often challenging to grow axenic Chlorella cultures after isolation from the host because they are nutrient fastidious and often susceptible to virus infection. We hypothesize that the establishment of a symbiotic relationship resulted in natural selection for nutritional and metabolic …

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 1 Summer 2016, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

Decolonizing The Body: Breast Cancer And The Environment In Toxic Times, Cynthia L. Martin

American Studies ETDs

This dissertation explores cultural narratives regarding the relationship between environmental toxins and breast cancer causation. It is not an analysis of current scientific research; grounded in Foucault’s theory of genealogy and archaeology, it evaluates cultural narratives on breast cancer causation that may be subsumed by the mainstream focus upon a cure for breast cancer, overlooking how people with breast cancer perceive illness causation, particularly as it relates to toxic exposure. Theories of place, space, and the neoliberal politics behind biotechnology support understanding the toxification of the human body as neocolonialism, and invite decolonizing methodologies as a means of understanding and …

Contributors, James A. Wren

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Information about contributors to articles in volume 16, issue 2 of Reconstruction.

Uno Academic Integrity Survey To Charis & Directors 2016, Office Of Institutional Effectiveness University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Student Learning

Academic Integrity Frequency Table

Research View, Summer 2016

Research View

Contents of this issue include:

The Brain Team: New UM Neural Injury Center Changes Lives

Quick Looks: Evolutionary Biologist Elected to Elite Academy -- University Students Create Astronomy Teaching Tool -- Trio of UM Researchers Lands Prestigious CAREER Grants -- Parks' Poem Tops National Competition -- University Climate Change Studies Coordinator Wins National Award -- Research Reveals Island Trend in Bird Evolution -- Glimpse

Big, Cold and Creepy: Researchers Study Gigantism Among Antarctic Sea Spiders

Pollution Prejudice: UM researcher studies how waste facilities target low-income, minority areas

Use Of Cycling Paths Along The Morogoro Brt Line, Ford Sanger

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

As the urban population continues to increase rapidly in Dar es Salaam it will become increasingly important to find sustainable means of urban transportation. With planned infrastructure improvements in the city to help alleviate traffic congestion, bicycles, which represent a largely underutilized form of urban transportation, have the potential to play a large role in the future of the city. Through background research, direct observations, community surveys, and interviews, both formal and informal, this study sought to understand the impact of the recent addition of bike lanes along the first phase of the Dar Bus Rapid Transit line. It was …

Camas, Summer 2016

Camas

Confessions of a Citizen Scientist / Sharman Apt Russell -- Ploughed Under, Sprouting Back / Peter Gurche -- Rust / Joe Harrity -- Thaw / Nick Triolo -- Department of Future Regrets / Phillip Aijian -- The Sign at City View Road and City View Boulevard / Amy Miller -- Too Big / Taylor Hopkins -- Muddying the Line / Ser Anderson -- Prayer In Motion / Tom Murphy -- All the Wild That Remains by David Gessner / Matt Hart -- Endings / Teresa Vanairsdale

01. From Cemetery Prairies To National Tallgrass Prairies: Proceedings Of The 24th North American Prairie Conference, Roger Anderson, Chris Benda

North American Prairie Conference Proceedings

Program booklet, abstracts, and all manuscripts for the 24th North American Prairie Conference held July 17-20, 2016, at Illinois State University.

The Schools, Saint Mary's College Of California

Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Program Of Study, Saint Mary's College Of California

Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Environmental And Earth Science Programs, Saint Mary's College Of California

Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Expressions, Summer 2016, San Jose State University, College Of The Humanities And The Arts

Expressions (College of Humanities and the Arts)

College of Humanities and the Arts Newsletter, Volume 11

History, Saint Mary's College Of California

Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Altitudinal Gradients Do Not Predict Plant-Symbiont Responses To Experimental Warming, Melanie R. Kazenel

Biology ETDs

Fungal symbionts, ubiquitous inhabitants of above- and belowground plant tissues, can play important roles in increasing plant tolerance to abiotic and biotic stress. Disruption of plant-fungal interactions may therefore have important consequences for plant responses to climate change. Both altitudinal gradients and warming experiments can be useful tools for understanding responses of symbioses to climate shifts, but the degree to which altitudinal patterns will predict species responses to warming has received little attention for plant-symbiont interactions. This study combined surveys along replicated altitudinal gradients with a long-term warming experiment at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) in Colorado, USA to …

Workshop Participant List

Colby College Museum of Art

No abstract provided.

Workshop Announcement

Colby College Museum of Art

No abstract provided.